Antebellum South

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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,072 ratings
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North and South (North and South, #1)
North and South (North and South, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 62,172 ratings
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The House Girl
The House Girl 3.77 avg rating — 62,910 ratings
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The Invention of Wings
The Invention of Wings 4.26 avg rating — 328,083 ratings
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Surrender the Wind (Surrender, #1)
Surrender the Wind (Surrender, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Wind Done Gone
The Wind Done Gone 3.16 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,827 ratings
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The Book of Lost Friends
The Book of Lost Friends 4.15 avg rating — 116,195 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Cane River
Cane River 4.08 avg rating — 50,068 ratings
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Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind 3.42 avg rating — 3,118 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 83,784 ratings
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Rhett Butler's People
Rhett Butler's People 3.81 avg rating — 21,032 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Nightjohn
Nightjohn 3.86 avg rating — 5,515 ratings
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship 3.52 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,375 ratings
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861 3.94 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,374 ratings
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails 3.98 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,138 ratings
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A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920
A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Memoirs of a Slave Girl
Memoirs of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,859 ratings
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia
Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,005 ratings
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books)
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes 4.47 avg rating — 90,247 ratings
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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900) 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Journey of Little Charlie
The Journey of Little Charlie 4.05 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast
Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books)
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 3.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South 3.90 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner 3.69 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South 4.08 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Florida Slave
The Florida Slave 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy 3.67 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Florida
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Florida 4.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series)
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley
Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861
A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America
Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South 4.44 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Antebellum Homes of Georgia
Antebellum Homes of Georgia 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South 4.09 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country 3.74 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South 4.14 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South 4.03 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia
Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country
Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market 4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab 3.93 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
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GOD MADE MAN, MAN MADE THE SLAVE: The Autobiography of George Teamoh
GOD MADE MAN, MAN MADE THE SLAVE: The Autobiography of George Teamoh liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Slave Narratives
Slave Narratives 4.49 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History 4.09 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Weeping Time by a Georgia Geechee
Weeping Time by a Georgia Geechee liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power
Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom 4.18 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book 4.38 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.30 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
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Florida's Seminole Wars 1817-1858
Florida's Seminole Wars 1817-1858 3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings
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A Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813-14
A Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813-14 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812
Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812
by: Mike Bunn
3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory
Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory 4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Volume 2) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Volume 2) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813-1855
The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813-1855 4.16 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Triumph of the Eccunna Nuxulge
Triumph of the Eccunna Nuxulge 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot (Brown Thrasher Books)
Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Whites Among The Cherokees Georgia 1827-1838: Written by the Participants (Georgia Genealogy Book Series)
Whites Among The Cherokees Georgia 1827-1838: Written by the Participants (Georgia Genealogy Book Series) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 3.91 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears 4.23 avg rating — 151 ratings
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An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears 3.99 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series 3.80 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story 4.15 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by: John Ehle
4.13 avg rating — 4,467 ratings
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Indian Lover: Sam Houston and the Cherokees
Indian Lover: Sam Houston and the Cherokees 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War 4.33 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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Tampa Before the Civil War (Tampa Bay History Center Reference Library Series, No. 8)
Tampa Before the Civil War (Tampa Bay History Center Reference Library Series, No. 8) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War 3.74 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War 4.12 avg rating — 1,384 ratings